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  • Netanyahu says Congress speech 'well worth' confrontation with Obama

    Shlomo Cesana and Mati Tuchfeld Israel Hayom, JNS.org|Mar 20, 2015

    After speaking to Congress on March 3 despite the objections of the Obama administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “a prime minister in Israel must be able to stand up even to our closest ally and tell the truth.” In an interview published Friday by Israel Hayom, whose English-language content is distributed exclusively by JNS.org, Netanyahu said his speech about the Iranian nuclear threat was “well worth the cost of confrontation” with President Barack Obama. The White House had opposed the speech on the grounds...

  • As the calendar turns, Netanyahu says Israel 'doing better' despite 'harsher reality'

    Shlomo Cesana Gonen Ginat and Amos Regev, JNS.org|Oct 10, 2014

    In his office, next to photos of his wife and family, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps a portrait of Theodor Herzl. "He was a prophet. A modern prophet," Netanyahu says, further naming Zionist pioneer Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and Likud party founder and former prime minister Menachem Begin as equally important Zionist leaders. In an interview with Israel Hayom ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Netanyahu applies those past leaders' experiences to the...

  • Michael Oren: U.S. becoming more isolationist, but support for Israel higher than ever

    Shlomo Cesana, JNS.org|Sep 20, 2013

    During his term as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren found himself faced with a rapidly changing America, a Middle East on fire, and an Israel that had to deftly navigate between the seismic changes taking place in both locations. But looking at the polls, which continuously show high support for Israel among Americans, Oren is satisfied, saying they show that support for Israel in American public opinion is “the highest it’s ever been.” “At a time when the Middle East is turbule...

  • Amid Egypt turmoil, Israel casts its eye on Sinai region

    Gideon Allo Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom, JNS.org|Jul 12, 2013

    Israel should do all it can to help the new secular government in Egypt beat the Muslim Brotherhood, even if that means amending the Military Annex of the Camp David peace accords to allow more Egyptian military assets into the Sinai Peninsula, the former director of Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister’s Office Brig. Gen. (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel said Sunday. Speaking to Army Radio, Nuriel said a defeat for the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters in the Sinai would reverberate across the Middle East, and would be of huge str...

  • IDF not responsible for 2000 al-Dura shooting, government report finds

    Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom, JNS.org|May 24, 2013

    An Israeli government review of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 has officially debunked a French television report suggesting he was killed by direct Israel Defense Forces fire. The 36-page report, which was presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, further concluded that it was highly likely that the boy survived the incident unscathed and therefore may still be alive. The boy’s father, Jamal, urged an international inquest into t...